Gourmet International Products ("GIP") publishes a magazine entitled "Gourmet". A particular issue, intended for subscribers and not sold in shops, contained advertisements for wines and spirits.
The service is intended to let subscribers pop open their laptops and have a seamless high-speed wireless extension of their personal or corporate Internet services -- initially in the 50 largest metropolitan areas -- without having to give credit card numbers or enter additional information, as is generally the case now.
But Comcast executives played down the significance of the move, saying that it was intended to hook new subscribers.
The price increase, which affected about half of its subscribers, was intended in part to raise more money for content licenses like the one announced on Thursday, a company spokesman said.
(For one thing, hasn't Lil Rummyy been sent home already?) This mocking celebration of executive hubris feels awfully pre-2006-election pre-2006-election pre-2006-election thand "Lil' Bush" firstheret on the air last September as a series of five-minute cellphone cartoons, intended to draw young subscribers to a new wireless company, Amp's Mobile.
In a document entitled "A list of subscribers to the intended Bolton Bury and Manchester Canal Navigation", now kept in the Greater Manchester County Record Office, some of the more notable subscribers are listed, along with the amounts invested by each.
Did all those 6.5 million subscribers intend to pay for Apple Music, though?
XM intends to charge subscribers $9.99 monthly, while Sirius will charge $12.95.
More than half the 170 pages of the May issue of Gamecock, a 62-year-old monthly magazine that claims 16,000 subscribers, are advertisements intended for cockfighters.
SMS subscribers were significantly more likely to report intended or actual behavior change than pushed or retrieved voice messaging subscribers.
